Teaming With Opportunity

by Farmer, Lesley S. J.

• ISBN13: 9781563088780
• ISBN10: 1563088789
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-15
• Publisher: Libraries Unltd Inc

Summary

A myriad of exciting opportunities for collaboration and networking awaits you! This guide shows you how to identify and optimize partnerships that benefit your library media center and help you build a true learning community. In addition to theoretical foundations of collaboration and learning, hands-on guidance is given for teaming up with school members, families, universities, libraries, community agencies, professional organizations, and businesses. A valuable professional reference for school librarians, administrators, teachers, and anyone seeking the skills and intellectual background to nurture a culture of lifelong learning and assume the lead in taking the library media center to the next level.

Author Biography

LESLEY S. J. FARMER is Coordinator of Library Media Teacher Services Credential Program and Professor of Library Media Technology at California State University, Long Beach. A frequent contributor to professional journals, she was selected by CSLA as the 1999 Technology School Librarian of the Year.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
The Learning Community	1	(8)
The Learning Community	2	(1)
How Does Information Literacy Help Learning?	3	(1)
Case Study	4	(1)
The Moral Is	5	(1)
Library Media Teachers and the Larger Community	6	(3)
Library Media Programs	9	(8)
Standards	9	(1)
Library Media Program Principles	10	(2)
Setting the Stage for Partnerships	12	(1)
Close Up	13	(4)
Teaching and Learning	13	(1)
Information Access and Delivery	13	(1)
Program Administration	14	(3)
Leading from the Middle	17	(6)
Defining the Other	17	(1)
Leveraging the Library	18	(2)
Library Media Teachers as Change Agent	20	(1)
Close Up	21	(2)
Technology as a Means and an End	23	(22)
What is Special about Technology?	23	(2)
Collaps of Time and Space	23	(1)
Combination of Media	24	(1)
Sophisticated Processing	25	(1)
Repurposing	25	(1)
Technology as an End	25	(3)
How Do Technology Tools Help Partnerships?	28	(6)
Desktop Publishing (DTP)	28	(2)
Databases	30	(1)
Spreadsheets	31	(1)
Presentation Programs	32	(1)
Telecommunications	32	(1)
World Wide Web	33	(1)
Digitized Images	34	(1)
Caveats about Technology	34	(1)
Community Management	35	(1)
Close Up	36	(9)
The Nature of Groups	45	(14)
What Is a Group?	46	(1)
Organizational Behaviour	47	(1)
Group Dynamics	47	(1)
The Impact of Technology	48	(1)
Dynamics Between Groups	48	(2)
Life Cycles	50	(2)
Power	52	(2)
Groups as Partners	54	(1)
Close Up	54	(5)
Building Group Partnerships	59	(10)
Scoping Out the Scence: The Environmental Scan	60	(1)
Getting Group Support	61	(2)
Planning	63	(6)
Get Started	63	(1)
Start Planning Activities	64	(1)
Assess the Current Status	64	(1)
Identify School Improvement Efforts	65	(1)
Systemize Technology Support	65	(1)
Develop the Implementation Plan	66	(1)
Assess and Revise the Plan	67	(2)
Teaming with School Members	69	(18)
The Varieties of Power	69	(1)
Teachers	70	(5)
Support Staff	75	(1)
Administrators	76	(1)
Paraprofessional Staff	77	(1)
School Board	77	(1)
Students	78	(3)
Communications	81	(1)
Case Studies	81	(1)
Close Up	82	(5)
Teaming with Families	87	(10)
Levels of Involvement	87	(2)
Factors in Parent Partnerships	89	(1)
Technology's Role	90	(1)
The Virtual Volunteer	91	(2)
Case Studies	93	(1)
Close Up	94	(3)
Teaming with Institutes of Higher Learning	97	(8)
How IHEs Work	97	(1)
Teaching in Community	98	(2)
Professional Development	100	(1)
Research Partnerships	101	(1)
Case Studies	102	(1)
Close Up	103	(2)
Teaming with Libraries	105	(8)
Building on Strenghts	105	(1)
Traditional Partnerships	106	(1)
Service Through Technology	107	(1)
Advocacy	108	(1)
Case Studies	109	(1)
Close Up	110	(3)
Teaming with Community Agencies	113	(10)
The Role of the Individual	113	(1)
What Are Communities Made Of?	114	(1)
The Role of Government	115	(1)
The Role of Mass Media	116	(1)
Building a Sense of Community	117	(1)
Measuring the Impact	118	(1)
Case Studies	119	(2)
Close Up	121	(2)
Teaming with Professional Organizations	123	(8)
Case Studies	125	(2)
What Makes Them Work	127	(1)
Close Up	128	(3)
Teaming with Business	131	(10)
Mutual Benefits	132	(2)
What NOT to Do	134	(1)
Positive Approaches to Business Partnerships	135	(1)
Case Studies	135	(2)
Close Up	137	(4)
Levels of Learning Community Partnerships	141	(36)
Project-Based Partnerships	141	(1)
Project Close Up	142	(1)
Staking Out the Library Media Center	143	(1)
Library Media Center Close Up	144	(1)
Mutually Supporting the Curriculum	145	(1)
Curriculum Close Up	146	(4)
School Initiatives	150	(1)
Intitatives Close Up	151	(3)
Whole School Reform	154	(2)
Reform Close Up	156	(4)
Shaping the District	160	(1)
District Close Up	161	(2)
Improving the Community	163	(1)
Community Close Up	164	(1)
Information Literacy Across the Levels	165	(1)
Information Literacy Close Up	166	(2)
Technology Standards Across the Levels	168	(3)
Technology Close Up	171	(6)
Putting It All Together	177	(14)
Coordination versus Control	177	(3)
Evaluation	180	(2)
Assessment Instruments	182	(3)
Redirection	185	(1)
Maximizing the Impact	186	(3)
For the Sake of a Child	189	(1)
Close Up	190	(1)
References and Additional Reading	191	(8)
Index	199